Thursday’s Quick Clicks…

California Supreme Court holds that, in post-conviction, recantation of an expert based on new scientific advances carries more weight than recantation of a lay witness. Summary here, decision here

A jury in Iowa is still trying to decide whether two Omaha, Neb., men should be paid millions of dollars for spending 25 years in prison on murder convictions later overturned.Jurors began deliberating Friday afternoon after 21 days in the courtroom. They spent eight hours Monday and six hours Tuesday working on the case. They must decide whether Terry Harrington and Curtis McGhee should be paid by the city of Council Bluffs and two retired police officers who worked to convict them in 1978.